One of my notable off-hours pursuits is long-distance trail running. To wit, two weekends ago I successfully completed my first ultramarathon, the Tahoe Rim Trail 50K (which ended up being ~33.6 miles). For grins, here I am at around mile 24, courtesy of the official race photographer: Gorgeous scenery, eh? My buddy Steve from San […]
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Microsoft, with Kinect for the Xbox 360, doesn't have an 'exclusive' on motion-based game console control. Nintendo’s Wii game console released in late 2006 was the trendsetter in this regard, although the company's approach isn't vision-based (at least in the visible light spectrum, that is). The first-generation Wii Remote combines two key circuit subsystems to
Speaking of the Xbox 360…yesterday, Microsoft released Avatar Kinect, a capability first unveiled at Microsoft's early-January Consumer Electronics Show keynote and free to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers (and to all Xbox 360 users through September 8) from Kinect Fun Labs. The Xbox 360 user interface has incorporated user-customizable Avatars since mid-November 2008; here's what currently
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Qualcomm Incorporated, a developer and licensor of wireless communications and mobile processing technologies, announced today that it has acquired a portion of the intellectual property assets of embedded vision pioneer GestureTek, along with "key engineering resources," focused on mobile applications. This is not an outright acquisition, however; GestureTek is "retaining other assets that relate to
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By Eldad Melamed Project Manager, Video Algorithms CEVA To read this article as a pdf file, click here. Much like the human visual system, embedded computer vision systems perform the same visual functions of analyzing and extracting information from video in a wide variety of products. In embedded portable devices such as Smartphones, digital cameras, and
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